3 papers
cs.CV2026
Measuring the evolution of camera distance across a century of film
David Bamman, Allison Cooper, Dan Hickey +1
The rise of computer vision and artificial intelligence has made possible new forms of large-scale computational measurement. We apply these techniques to a deep collection of 5,20…
cs.AI2026
Evaluating Multimodal Narrative Understanding of Popular Hollywood Films
David Bamman, Kent K. Chang, Allison Cooper +7
Multimodal language models increasingly show promise for enabling the large-scale computational analysis of film, opening up new avenues for learning about film history and the evo…
cs.CV2026
Measuring Gender Representation in Animated Films
David Bamman, Allison Cooper, Ruby Alvarez Rubio +2
Animated films--often developed with an audience of children in mind--are an important vector for enculturation, and empirical work that has examined the representation of gender a…